In the canon
The Face of Battle
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1976
- Pages
- Pages 350
It opens with the admission a military historian is not supposed to make: this one has never been in a battle, never heard one from a distance, and has spent his life at Sandhurst teaching the young men he helps to send. So John Keegan went looking for what the old battle pieces leave out, on three fields lying within a few days' march of one another.
I have not been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath.
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